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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by Benedict Arnold.

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He's no American hero, but he's always welcome for brunch.

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Yeah. Those are good.

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All right, check out the following passage.

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All right, where was Benedict Arnold born?

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All right, and here are the potential answers. Oh, boy, this is an easy one.

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Answers B and D are tempting because we know

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Benedict Arnold defected to the British.

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But Benedict didn't turn his coat over homesickness,

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so we can, uh, eliminate both answers.

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Answer A seems familiar to us because so many

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revolutionary heroes were born there.

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But after rereading the passage, we can give answer A

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its marching orders... Bye.

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All right, well, that leaves us with answer C as our correct answer.

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It's hidden right here in the second sentence of the paragraph.

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Yeah, hidden. "Born in Connecticut."

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That reminds us of a show we pitched to ABC about

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Benedict Arnold many years ago.

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Well, not surprisingly, the network decided to go in a different direction.

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